Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Inside dope from the Romney campaign

For the press and the chattering political masses, there was only one question on everyone’s mind: What exactly did Eric Fehrnstrom, Mr. Romney’s senior adviser, mean when he said earlier in the day that Mr. Romney’s fall campaign as the nominee would be “almost like an Etch A Sketch — you can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.”

From vox populi:

Etch-a-sketch for the American attention span
Mr. Potato Head for GOP President.

WDJ has a clandestine source inside the Romney campaign, who provides this exclusive leak:

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[Raw intelligence // Reliability unassessed] A named source high in the Millard “Witt” Romney campaign, who may be acting with intent to deceive, and may have taken leave of his senses, states:

“In order to divest himself of Mormon baggage (much as he divested himself of Enron stock), the former Governor and former moderate will be running in the general election as a Buddhist.”

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[Update 8 April 2012] All right -- Buddhist, maybe. But this -- this we did not anticipate.

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